> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > What is the reasoning for including extra applications in something > > called "GNOME Desktop". Notice that I am not challenging that, I am > > simply asking. > > The meta package is called 'gnome', not 'GNOME Desktop'.
Yes, sorry. > The > answer, as a > question: When you install Red Hat, and you choose the > "GNOME" option, do you just get what upstream defines as the > 'GNOME Desktop' release, or do you get a complete user > environment which includes applications for common tasks? I think (but I'm not 100% sure) that the choice in the Red Hat install determines what panel, desktop, and file-browser are used, but I think that the extra applications will be present regardless of the choice, because GNOME apps can run in KDE, and KDE apps can run in GNOME. I don't think the users cares about an application's dependencies, and I don't think he would use that as a basis for choosing a set of apps. Murray Cumming www.murrayc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
